Intern, Integrated Photonic Devices Engineer

Job Title: Intern, Integrated Photonic Devices Engineer Job Code: 44157 Job Location: Palm Bay, FL Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked, and have every other Friday off

Job Description

Design, build, and test the photonic devices that enable next-generation sensing and communications. This graduate internship emphasizes experimental work on integrated acousto-optic devices, RF/microwave photonics, distributed fiber sensing, and fiber-optic communications.

Essential Functions

Design and execute experiments to characterize photonic devices, components, and subsystems. Develop measurement methods; collect, assess, and interpret experimental data. Evaluate performance such as optical loss, coupling, bandwidth, modulation response, linearity, noise, or environmental sensitivity. Work with multidisciplinary teams to integrate and validate mature designs at device, subsystem, and system levels.

Qualifications

To be eligible, candidate's must be pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, Materials Science, or a related field.

Preferred Skills

Experience with waveguide acousto-optic modulators or deflectors, SAW/BAW transducers, RF-drive integration, or acousto-optic mode conversion. Experience with programmable RF/microwave photonic circuits, tunable delay or true-time-delay, microwave photonic filtering, frequency conversion, or low-phase-noise photonic sources. Experience with frequency combs, silicon/silicon-nitride/InP/thin-film lithium-niobate PICs, photonic packaging, or electronic-photonic co-integration. Strong foundation in photonics, device physics, electromagnetics, or related analytical methods. Experimental research, internship, laboratory, or substantial project experience in at least one of: integrated photonics, acousto-optic devices, RF/microwave photonics, distributed fiber sensing, or fiber-optic communications.